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someplace

Parf of speech: Adverb, OED Year: 1880, OED Evaluation: dial. and U.S.

Somewhere; (at, in, to, etc.) a particular or unspecified place.

ExampleMeaning
Oh yeah we got to some places like we go to Tim-Hortans for coffee, ah, we go shopping, we go to the bars every now and then.
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You wouldn't believe that, but there was one there and we went there because everybody congregated some place where we could go, eh? So all the kids, it didn't matter if you were catholic or-whatever. Everybody went there and socialized and- ... sang songs and played games and-stuff-like-that.
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... couldn't understand English, eh? So we would- we would be more compassionate to him, eh? To- to help- help him eh? And- and ah, so it was ah, it was a very good ah, thing like that. W-- nobody was really established in Kirkland-Lake. We all came from some place, eh? and so therefore, we got along much better, eh?
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In our- in- right in that little area wasn't a big deal, French or English. Some places it was, yeah.
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The- it's on some place, on the tie or in the corner.
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... always going for a picnic with them. ... And it didn't matter, rain, sunshine or storm anything, we'd still go. We plan, we'd go. Many times we'd gone out and it's pouring down rain. Ah, we're out, we'd stop over at a rock some place and we'd have a picnic anyway.
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And we'd camp out we'd go camping some places in the tent. And she'd sleep in- her, him would sleep in the cardboard box, the rest- rest of us sleep in sleeping bags on the floor. Things like th-- we did things like that all the time.
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"Where we going to go?" And you-know, I say, "Well, let's go some place." So him and I walked off and left the guys on that side of the road. We went to the other side of the road. And we got down there and we saw two great big moose. Right in front of us.
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Speaker 2: You know um, m-- my father did an interview and ah there's some stories that I don't know if he told them or not. They recorded it and now they can't find it. Speaker: They're here some place.
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It's- works a lot better sta-- getting an apprenticeship close to town than it is getting one away from town and having to get an apartment or stuff-like-that, so it makes more sense to- than- for this one to be close than go with someplace ex-- excluded, right?
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We camped a lot of the way out in different spots. Ah, we would stay one or two nights and then we would stay in a university dormitory- ... So that, you-know, one or two nights and then you had some place that we- you could wash and you could have a shower and you could ah wash your clothes and-all-that-kind-of-stuff. 'Cause there wasn't a lot of room to take a lot of stuff.
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Interviewer: ... for generations and generations- ... people have gone there to get away to drink or- or to hang out and-stuff. Did you know anyone or was that around back in that spot or- ... Speaker: It- it was probably there but it wasn't some place that I utilized or- or ah my friends- Now, with a lot of those places which you go- went back there you went there in this time of the year to berries.
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Because there isn't that much work. ... There's not many jobs available. ... Y-- you'd pretty well have to go some place- ... Bigger cities.
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It's home, you're comfortable- it's the familiarity and ah the scene. I-mean you can- well here we're away from people anyway, but um you can get out and away and see different sections which is- you-know drive ten minutes and you're off some place else to see another, you-know I-mean? I-don't-know it's just nuts.
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Isn't it- it had to be- it had to be in the fifties because I was still working for Rogers then. But we were out North in Kirkland, some place real.
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... our daughter Gina ah, when she was ha-- she ran away from home when she was fourteen and th-- ah, did some hitchhiking across Canada and that- like we didn't know where she was and we were really, as you can imagine, really upset and distraught and all the rest of it. And when she came back um, the- the-Children's-Aid eventually found her some place ah, I don't know how they found her but- anyway, when she ah came back, we took her for counselling and- and we went to the-Children's-Aid and they dug up her records and her biological mother did the very same thing as she had done.
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And they're-- they're trying to ask the miners when they come off their shift if they had any sandwiches or leftover lunch- they'd get it. There were a lot of people here, they come and they do work just for something to eat and you- then go some place else.
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They built a new hospital there. Instead of building it some place where they got lots of land- or else, they're talking now about ah building a high building. With- pay to par-- go up and park.
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That'd be Danielle's brother's boy. Dan- Danielle's brother- he's a doctor in London or-some-place-there. ... They were raised- they all raised over- just over here- a couple blocks on Duncan.
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Well i-- it's alright to get your education here but I mean what do you- you going to do for a job? That's a big problem. You have to go out some place and get a job. It's okay to- to- once you get high-school here. Unless you go to Northern-College here.
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